By all accounts, Stephen Stanko is a smooth talker. At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with a shock of dark hair, Stanko was a striking man in his mid-30s. He would brag about being rich, buy drinks for ...

Death row inmate Stephen Stanko has been put to death by lethal injection. His execution is the 6th since the death chamber opened again last September after a more than decade-long pause.

Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. local time on June 13 Stanko was convicted of strangling his girlfriend in front of her daughter before shooting and killing a friend in April 2005 ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and cleaning out his bank account. He was serving two death sentences at the ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko has chosen to die by lethal injection after his lawyers say he is troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state ...

CONWAY, SC (WMBF) - An Horry County jury has found Stephen Stanko guilty in the 2005 armed robbery and death of 74-year-old Henry Lee Turner of Conway. Both the prosecution and defense called all ...

Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. He was executed for shooting a friend and then cleaning out his bank account in Horry County in 2005.